Aberration-Free Imaging Based on Parity-Time Symmetric Nonlocal Metasurfaces

Lens design for focusing and imaging has been optimized through centuries of developments; however, conventional lenses, even in their most ideal realizations, still suffer from fundamental limitations, such as limits in resolution and the presence of optical aberrations, which are inherent to the laws of refraction. Although some of these limitations have been at least theoretically relaxed with the advent of metamaterials, several challenges still stand in the path toward ideal aberration-free imaging. Here, we show that the concept of parity-time symmetry, combined with tailored nonlocal response, allows overcoming some of these challenges, and we demonstrate the design of a loss-immune, linear, transversely invariant, aberration-free planarized metamaterial lens.

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